Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Graham

We were in every match today. We were pretty steady for the day. Our serving let us down in one game in the Evansville Reitz match. Overall, I would like to commend Kaelin Tuell. She played the back row for us and did a good job. Kara Dieterlen helped us with a couple of service runs and she's starting to show elements of leadership, which we've been looking for. I thought Kelsie McKee did a pretty good job at the net.

Aaron Miles

He was put in a situation where he's had an opportunity to play a lot, and his confidence is growing. I commend him for it. This is a tough league. You've got to be mentally prepared, physically prepared. You have to be tough. He's playing all that for the most part, it seems like.

Jim Barker

I think we should commend the legislators for recognizing that higher education is a major contributor to economic prosperity and should be a state funding priority.

Dwight Brunoehler

Our protocols already meet or exceed the current European standards and regulations. We commend the European Commission on their forward thinking and proactive approach. This is exactly what the industry needs to secure a stricter set of worldwide guidelines.

Debbie Davis

I'm so impressed with the research that went into this book. I know Joel is a solid reporter -- after all, he did great work for us in the late 1980s -- but I want to commend him for a truly fine work of journalism.

Joel Davis

I'm so impressed with the research that went into this book, ... I know Joel is a solid reporter -- after all, he did great work for us in the late 1980s -- but I want to commend him for a truly fine work of journalism.

William Shakespeare

Who is Silvia? What is she, / That all our swains commend her? / Holy, fair, and wise is she.

J. C. Watts

I would like to commend Mrs. Matheny, ... I'm sad for her.

Thomas Christie

I?d like to commend the commission for envisioning a metro jail. It makes sense. Unfortunately for every municipality here, it?s all about the money.

Alan Greenspan

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Steve Thompson

We lacked the killer touch. It is as simple to explain and as difficult to put right as that.

Paul Browne

We know from experience how difficult it can be for new writers to get their work into print. As a result, there is a lot of undiscovered talent out there. We intend to find it.

Sven Eriksson

Wales made life difficult for us, especially hanging in during the first half when I thought we played well,

Pauline Hanson

Wake up, Australia, before it is too late. Australians need and want leaders who can inspire and give hope in difficult times.

Don Worstell

The one thing we like about our team over most teams we play is our depth. We play nine guys, and any one of them can go big on you on a given night. I think we're a difficult team to scout.

Rick Stansbury

The pluses are that (Gordon) is a good player. He is going to be one of the better players in the league. If he gains more experience he will be really good, he has had some difficult times and has been providing good leadership as a freshman.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Angela Sgrignuoli

Where the wind made it difficult for several riders Saturday, today was nearly perfect for the runners.

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Charles Stanley

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Charles Stanley

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Suki Waterhouse

When I met Julia Roberts, the only thing that came out my mouth was, 'Thank you.'

Martha MacIsaac

Since I was 4, Julia Roberts has inspired me. I thought if I liked her enough, I'd become as pretty as her. That didn't happen, but I was obsessed and watched her movies over and over.

Andy Jados

Julia played really well. She really lifted us in the first half. She's very athletic.

Brad Goreski

I would love to work with Julia Roberts at some point.

Luise Rainer

Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.

Ike Barinholtz

My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.

Randall Park

I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with.

Robin Wright

I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time.

Maria Menounos

Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Chita Rivera

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

Devon Werkheiser

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

David Cross

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

Dave Barry

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America,

Byron Katie

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

Betty Williams

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

Beyonce Knowles

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

David Brenner

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Benjamin Watson

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Rick Ochoa

I think the weather you're seeing in Texas is very unusual. You would have to go back to the '50s to see the kind of dryness you're seeing. I don't think we've seen anything like this in a generation.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Woody Williams

When he's seeing everything good, there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

Charles Dickens

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

Dianna Agron

Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling. You just want to get out of that situation.

David Krumholtz

Halfway through Numbers, I got really jaded, and I had these unrealistic expectations about what Numbers could be. I thought it should be Emmy-nominated. I was in my mid-20s, so I was kind of shortsighted and silly.

Dave Barry

Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?

Dave Barry

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.

Dave Barry

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

David Sarnoff

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

Charlie Daniels

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Alan Bishop

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Jim Johnstone

We want to thank everyone for all their help.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Bruce Vento

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

Bill Kreutzmann

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.